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Mordechai Sobol
… for cantor and choir. One of Sobol's main projects was the establishment of the Yuval Ensemble for cantorate and Jewish music, where he …
Alexander Tansman
… Warsaw. Moved to Paris in 1921, spent WWII (1941-1946) in the US, but returned to Paris in 1946. Tansman incorporated … Jewish elements into his works and was influenced by the neo-classical style. Sources: Abravanel, Claude, and …
Max Weinreich
… specializing in sociolinguistics and Yiddis. His son is the linguist Uriel Weinreich. He is known for popularising the phrase 'A language is a dialect with an army and navy'. … tsayt, January–February 1945, pp. 13. Full biography at The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . … Yiddish …
Al-Gharid Al-Yahudi
… is not to be confused with al-Gharid (nickname meaning the fresh voice), one of the four great singers in the early Islamic era (d. 716). The biographical account of …
Bacon Family
… , Galicia and later in New York . Composed sections of the prayer service, some of which have been published. …
Jacob Koppel Sandler
… Born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine. Immigrated to the US in 1888 where he worked in the Yiddish theater and was the choral director for several cantors. He …
Martha Schlamme
… in Vienna, she escaped to England in 1938 and immigrated to the US in 1948. She became a popular singer, giving over a …
Yitzhak Sadai
… and immigrated to Israel in 1949. He studied composition at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music under Uriah Uri Boscovich … studied with Joseph Tal . Later he worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem (from 1960) and the Tel Aviv Academy of Music (from 1966). He wrote about …
Charles Kensington Salaman
… opera, and had a special interest in devotional music for the synagogue. He wrote 124 settings for synagogue services …
Karel Salmon
… Germany, Salmon studied composition with Richard Strauss at the Berlin Academy of the Arts, and later worked as a repetiteur at the Berlin Staatsoper, singer at the Hamburg Opera, and …